From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thomas Petazzoni Date: Sat, 13 Apr 2013 16:25:05 +0200 Subject: [Buildroot] Extending buildroot functionality for creating board support packages (BSP) out of buildroot tree In-Reply-To: References: <1463068659.1518019.1365760690328.JavaMail.root@openwide.fr> Message-ID: <20130413162505.635dec45@skate> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net Hello Andreas, On Fri, 12 Apr 2013 12:18:49 +0200 (CEST), universeII at gmx.de wrote: > If I understand you correctly this means that I have to hold a > complete copy of the kernel tree where I do the modifications? The > requirement for me is that I have to store only the modified and new > files in a different directory tree (under version control). So rsync > does not work for me and I have to write a small script which is > invoked by buildroot and copies my local files to the right > directories in the kernel tree. While we certainly aim at supporting a custom external tree for the Linux kernel sources to help using Buildroot during kernel development, we will certainly never support your use case of a partial kernel tree that contains only the modified and new files. This is just a very uncommon (and in my opinion completely wrong) way of handling source code changes. You should instead be using a git tree to do your kernel developments, and point LINUX_OVERRIDE_SRCDIR to it. Best regards, Thomas -- Thomas Petazzoni, Free Electrons Kernel, drivers, real-time and embedded Linux development, consulting, training and support. http://free-electrons.com